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...Duarte's call to join elections; they know too well the propensity of the Salvadoran military to shoot up anyone to the left of Roberto D'Aubisson. Even Duarte's meeting with the rebels at La Palma has been met only with the snarls of the death squads, who vow death to those offering a middle way out of El Salvador's problems...
...skies uncontested; if anything, the competition aloft* is growing more fierce: the European Space Agency is becoming an increasingly aggressive contender for commercial cargo and the Pentagon is planning to divert some of its space payloads to its own expendable rockets. But despite some past stumbling, NASA officials vow to prevail. The proud new ship Discovery has shown them...
...battled with pistols, rocks and knives against tanks and cannons. In May 1943, along with the buildings that held them, the fighters were reduced to ashes. Monuments have risen to commemorate the uprising, and periodically a dwindling number of survivors meet to recall the martyrs and make the celebrated vow "Never again." But another ghetto existed about 75 miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz. And yet it was there, in the second largest concentration in all of Europe, that some 240,000 Jews were crowded...
...week the President was considerably less equivocal. "I will propose no increase in personal income taxes," he said in a radio talk recorded at his California ranch, "and I will veto any tax bill that would raise personal tax rates for working Americans." Reagan was careful to limit his vow to personal income taxes: some kind of federal sales tax is favored by many of his advisers. He also claimed that Mondale's budget proposals would entail an average of "$1,500 more per household" in tax hikes...
...extensive effort than originally intended in the South. At a meeting arranged by Lance between Ferraro and Southern Governors and party leaders, she was invited to campaign in each of 13 states. In the West, Mondale strategists initially talked of possible victories only in Washington and Oregon. Now they vow a significant drive in California, which they had all but written...